Word: interallied
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...convenient to speak of his country's size as a well-rounded 1,000 sq. mi., but as every schoolboy in the Grand Duchy knew, Luxembourg was listed in all the books as having only 999 sq. mi. After World War II, Bech saw his chance. When the Inter-Allied Commission on Frontier Correction asked Luxembourg what it wanted in reparations, Bech promptly replied: one square mile of the German forest area called Kammerwald. The Allies threw in an extra square mile for good measure...
...also on view upstairs at the Fogg, where its future owners have complemented the collection's brilliance with a well-balanced, elegantly proportioned, and grandly spaced installation--which looks good from any spot. The 19th century gallery is particularly impressive with Van Gogh's Self Portrait, the primus inter pares of the lot. The brilliant lime-green brushwork which forms a halo around the artist's head is both economical and expressive and the demonic eyes with yellow pupils, the red defining lines of the nose and mouth, and the curious (and heavily painted) medallion all contribute to this great...
...switched to Richmond's Union Theological Seminary. But for Alabama-born Seminarian McNeill, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth had separate entrances marked WHITE and COLORED; as a member of the basketball team he refused to play against Richmond's Negro College, Virginia Union, and at an inter-seminary conference he balked at sitting down to lunch with the Negro delegates...
Even the University found trouble balancing the books, and debated asking for federal aid, a problem which has come up again more recently. The tutorial system was re-examined and intensified, and the House were fruitful topics for sustained interest in trivial problems, notably the subject of inter-House dining. House sports grew in organization, participation, and earnestness, and began to suggest an alternative to the looming professionalism of big-time football. Meanwhile, football relations with Princeton were renewed...
...Senator's speech is "news" and what part isn't, the journalist moulds the shape of the headlines and moulds the mind of his reader. By covering one speech instead of another, by putting words in the President's mouth at press conferences, by taking one side of an inter-departmental fight from a "source" and not trying to get the other side, a reporter forms the content of the news his audience gets...